Postcard: Tucson, Arizona, downtown, The Chicago Store. I wish you were here. Well, not you you. But that's the kicker, isn't it. You are analogical. I forget.
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The Infinite is more like a lion that exists than like a unicorn that does not, more like creatures that experience than like objects that do not, more like ourselves when we are fulfilled than when we are wanting. But that is all the assertions claim. We cannot presume that Being in its infinity bears more than a trace of resemblance to the being we encounter in rocks or mountains or waterfalls. And because the connotation of "being" derives preponderantly from the modes in which we encounter it directly, it would be misleading to claim that the word characterizes the Infinite literally. Only if the claim is converted into its negation--the assertion that the Infinite hasn't zero-being (doesn't not exist)--is it literally true; short of this the word functions analogically. (55)Forgotten Truth: the primordial tradition, Huston Smith
(Thank you, K, for sending me to read Smith)
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Glenda: We need to keep the volume down, okay?
Sage: On me?
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